Western Civilization.
It was fun while it lasted.
I bought a three-volume copy of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire back in the 1970s, when I recognized the counter-culture movement that began in the 1960s for what it was--the decadence of Western Civilization erupting into the open--and the election of Jimmy Carter to the Presidency as a manifestation of the decadence.
I was appalled at the depravity of the Romans and could not understand how a majority of the population would tolerate it.
As the years went by, I saw the American People tolerating more and more depravity, and I understood all too well.
President Trump and his supporters believe that America can be pulled back from the brink of decay and destruction.
President Trump was sufficiently convinced of it to risk everything--quit a bit, in his case--to save his beloved America.
The Democrats and the Establishment Republicans, even if they understand what's going on, which is questionable, have no intention of allowing him to reverse the decadence. They have too much to gain from it: their power, privileges, and luxuries, to begin with, but also they find a certain comfort and delight in the moral rot and decay, with all its permissiveness and indulgence. I.e. they're enjoying it!
It is Trump's threat--and the threat of truth--to all this that have generated the psychotic hatred that they have for him. He is a threat to the decadence.
Whether or not America can be saved from the suicidal destruction remains to be seen.
President Trump is a man of towering intelligence, puissance, and indomitability of spirit.
He might triumph. If so, it will be a triumph for the world.
The worst nightmare of the Democrats and their fellow travelers is Trump succeeding, destroying the decadence to which they have committed their souls (not to mention their ambitions!), making America soar to unprecedented heights of greatness, solving America's problems (e.g. the long racial nightmare), and, once having solved America's problems, going on to solve the great problems of the world and bringing the American Dream to all the people of the world!
This is Trump's Dream. It is the American Dream. It is the Democrats' Nightmare.
So horrifying to them is the specter of a Triumphant Trump, revealing their corruption, hate, evil, and mendacity for what they are, merely via his successes, that they are perfectly willing to scorch the earth of America, destroy the world, and commit any evil imaginable just to prevent it and stop him.
The Democrat Party is the Party of Hate, Violence, and Evil. It is also the Party of Decadence and Moral Rot and Decay.
It speaks volumes that they oppose the man whose rallying calls are "Make America Great!" and "In God We Trust!" who donates his Presidential salary to charity, and who has lost about a billion dollars since becoming President (whereas they have acquired millions of dollars for themselves).
America is locked in a Manichaean Struggle between the forces of good and evil, between ascendance and decadence, between Truth and Mendacity, between Love and Hate, between the Angels and Satan (it's no accident that the Democrats have the support of satanists, atheists, and witches, who have tried repeatedly to put a hex on President Trump).
President Trump has championed the forces of good, ascendance, Truth, and Love: the side of the Angels. Pray that he prevail!